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[LA BORDE, Jean-Benjamin De (1734-1794) and Pierre-Joseph ROUSSIER (1716/1717-1792).] Essai sur la musique ancienne et modern. Paris: Eugène Onfroy, 1780. 4 volumes, 4° (255 x 190mm). Vol. I: 63 fine engraved plates and folding tables, mainly of musical instruments and music, by Chenu and others, and at the end: 59 pages of engraved music ('Parties séparées des chansons à 4 parties, Haute-Contre); vol. II: 2 large folding tables, including engraved and type-set music, and 3 engraved plates, engraved music on pp.65-108, including 'Morceaux de musique du 16e et 17e siècle'), and at the end 178 pp. of engraved music ('Choix de chansons mise à quatre parties'); vol. III: 2 folding tables and 3 engraved plates, and at the end 59pp. of engraved music ('Parties séparées...Taille'). Half-titles to each volume, woodcut devices on titles. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco gilt labels, marbled endpapers, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS ‘VALUABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON 18TH-CENTURY MUSIC’ (New Grove 10, p.342-343). Cohen-de Ricci 538.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS ‘VALUABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON 18TH-CENTURY MUSIC’ (New Grove 10, p.342-343). Cohen-de Ricci 538.
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